Online Training

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Gain in-depth knowledge and prepare for the fall semester with hands-on, intensive workshops for department chairs:

Program Assessment and Curriculum Review
June 14, 2012
12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT

The Highly Effective Department Chair
June 21, 2012
12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT

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BOOKS

FERPA Clear and Simple: The College Professional’s Guide to Compliance

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) compliance has always been challenging due to complex regulatory language and exposure to risk. However, institutions that do not comply are in jeopardy of losing federal funding. Accessible and user-friendly, FERPA Clear and Simple clarifies the regulations and provides a ready reference for compliance and problem solving. This need-to-have guide offers critical and relevant material (including the 2008 Amendments) from a new perspective to help staff in student affairs, academic departments, and administrative support positions understand and comply with FERPA guidelines.

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JOURNAL

This quarterly periodical for department chairs and deans features practical advice, useful information, and up-to-date resources. Its applications, techniques, case studies, strategies, and guidance are directly relevant to today's academic leaders.

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ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

N. Douglas Lees

N. Douglas Lees is professor of biology and associate dean for planning and finance at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. From February 1992 to September 2010 he served as chair of the Department of Biology. He also holds appointments as an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering and as a member (now emeritus) of the founding faculty of University College. He has been active on several campus projects and committees focused on student retention and graduation rates including work in improving student success in Gateway courses, the development of the freshman work program, and in establishing career-based internships for students in the health sciences. In 1993 he developed a one-year M.S. program for students seeking to enhance their credentials for admission to professional schools in the life sciences. That program has since had nearly seven hundred graduates, with almost four hundred of those being successful in earning professional school admission. Lees has been nationally active on several higher education topics such as department staffing, post-tenure review, faculty evaluation, and fostering change. He has published widely on these and other topics related to department leadership and has authored Chairing Academic Departments: Traditional and Emerging Expectations (2006, Anker). Lees holds a B.A. in biology from Providence College and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University with a specialty in microbiology. His disciplinary research interests have been in the areas of fungal sterol biosynthesis and regulation as related to the identification of new targets for the discovery and development of novel antifungal compounds.